History Film / TheBeyond

Set in [[TheBigEasy Louisiana]], the film opens in 1927 with a painter named Schweick painting a vision of Hell in the basement of the Seven Doors Hotel when a lynch mob breaks in and murders him with quicklime, believing him to be a warlock. Shifting to the "present day", a young woman from New York named Liza Merril (Catriona Maccoll) has inherited the hotel and is renovating it. The activities of the contractors open the [[HellGate Gate of Hell]] the hotel is built over. Mysterious deaths and incidents ensue, with Liza and a local doctor encountering a mysterious blind girl who wants them to leave the hotel, a mystic tome called the Book of Eibon that supposedly contains the answers to the nightmare at hand, [[SpidersAreScary face eating tarantulas]], Schweick's ghoul, and eventually the rising dead. It ends with the two passing into the afterlife, which is [[TheNothingAfterDeath depicted as a blank gray wasteland littered with corpses]].

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Set in [[TheBigEasy Louisiana]], the film opens in 1927 with a painter named Schweick painting a vision of Hell in the basement of the Seven Doors Hotel when a lynch mob breaks in and murders him with quicklime, believing him to be a warlock. Shifting to the "present day", a young woman from New York named Liza Merril (Catriona Maccoll) has inherited the hotel and is renovating it. The activities of the contractors open the [[HellGate Gate of Hell]] the hotel is built over. Mysterious deaths and incidents ensue, with Liza and a local doctor encountering a mysterious blind girl who wants them to leave the hotel, a mystic tome called the Book of Eibon that supposedly contains the answers to the nightmare at hand, [[SpidersAreScary face eating face-eating tarantulas]], Schweick's ghoul, and eventually the rising dead. It ends with the two passing into the afterlife, which is [[TheNothingAfterDeath depicted as a blank gray wasteland littered with corpses]].

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'''''E tu vivrai nel terrore! L'aldilà ''''', known in English as '''''The Beyond''''' or '''''Seven Doors of Death''''' is a 1981 [[SurrealHorror surrealist]] [[ExploitationFilm exploitation]] horror film directed by Creator/LucioFulci, loosely based on the works of Creator/HPLovecraft and Creator/ClarkAshtonSmith.

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'''''E ''E tu vivrai nel terrore! L'aldilà ''''', '', known in English as '''''The Beyond''''' ''The Beyond'' or '''''Seven ''Seven Doors of Death''''' Death'', is a 1981 [[SurrealHorror surrealist]] [[ExploitationFilm exploitation]] horror film directed by Creator/LucioFulci, loosely based on the works of Creator/HPLovecraft and Creator/ClarkAshtonSmith.

* EyeScream: The film features two eye gouging scenes, first done by hand coming from a hole on a wall.

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* EyeScream: The film features two three eye gouging scenes, first done by scenes: a hand coming from a hole on a wall.wall, a victim shoved into an embedded nail that impales her eye, and a tarantula that pulls off ''the top layer'' of the eye from somebody's face.* FacialHorror: Somebody meets her end when corrosive acid falls on her face. In the usual Fulci fashion, it slowly shows off every detail of the acid's damage.

* SickeningCrunch: Numerous, but they all sound like someone crunching potato chips.** The foley work for the tarantulas deserves special mention- their every step sounds like grinding metal, and it's ''[[NightmareFuel absolutely unnerving.]]''

* DownerEnding: Everyone sadly succumbs [[spoiler:The entire town vanishes and is presumed dead. Liza and Richard try to flee the horrors of zombies, but they make the house.mistake of going into the basement, thus entering the Gate, and being trapped in the Beyond forever.]]

* BoomHeadshot: Dr. [=McCabe=] manages to get a couple of headshots at some zombies. And then he has to shoot a ghoul that grabbed Liza's face. Dear '''GOD'', the results. [[http://www.bloodygoodhorror.com/bgh/files/promos/fulci%20lives%201.jpg Click through with extreme caution...]]* BottomlessMagazines: Subverted; knowing that people would question his character shooting what appeared to be unlimited ammo from his gun, Creator/DavidWarbeck stealthily did some improv during in one scene (in the elevator of the hospital) where he reloads his gun... [[ArtisticLicense by dropping ammunition straight down the barrel]] (a lateral move, so far as realism goes).

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* BoomHeadshot: Dr. [=McCabe=] manages to get a couple of headshots at some zombies. And then he has to shoot a ghoul that grabbed Liza's face. Dear '''GOD'', ''GOD'', the results. [[http://www.bloodygoodhorror.com/bgh/files/promos/fulci%20lives%201.jpg Click through with extreme caution...]]* BottomlessMagazines: Subverted; knowing that people would question his character shooting what appeared to be unlimited ammo from his gun, Creator/DavidWarbeck David Warbeck stealthily did some improv during in one scene (in the elevator of the hospital) where he reloads his gun... [[ArtisticLicense by dropping ammunition straight down the barrel]] (a lateral move, so far as realism goes).

Though he originally intended it to be a HauntedHouse film, [[ExecutiveMeddling executives insisted he add zombies to make it more profitable]] due to zombie movies being the rage at the time. The film has since became a cult classic for its surrealist imagery, the {{Gorn}} that got it on Britain's infamous VideoNasties list, and for its [[SpecialEffectsFailure amateurish special effects]].

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Though he originally intended it to be a HauntedHouse film, [[ExecutiveMeddling executives insisted he add zombies to make it more profitable]] due to zombie movies being the rage at the time. The film has since became a cult classic for its surrealist imagery, and for the {{Gorn}} that got it on Britain's infamous VideoNasties list, and for its [[SpecialEffectsFailure amateurish special effects]].list.

Reason: The effects are actually really, really good. You should probably give the movie a rewatch if you think it suffers from Special Effects Failure.

Set in [[TheBigEasy Louisiana]], the film opens in 1927 with a painter named Schweick painting a vision of Hell in the basement of the Seven Doors Hotel when a lynch mob breaks in and murders him with quicklime, believing him to be a warlock. Shifting to the "present day", a young woman from New York named Liza Merril (Catriona Maccoll) has inherited the hotel and is renovating it. The activities of the contractors open the [[HellGate Gate of Hell]] the hotel is built over. Mysterious deaths and incidents ensue, with Liza and a local doctor encountering a mysterious blind girl who wants them to leave the hotel, a mystic tome called the Book of Eibon that supposedly contains the answers to the nightmare at hand, [[GiantSpider face eating tarantulas]], Schweick's ghoul, and eventually the rising dead. It ends with the two passing into the afterlife, which is [[TheNothingAfterDeath depicted as a blank gray wasteland littered with corpses]].

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Set in [[TheBigEasy Louisiana]], the film opens in 1927 with a painter named Schweick painting a vision of Hell in the basement of the Seven Doors Hotel when a lynch mob breaks in and murders him with quicklime, believing him to be a warlock. Shifting to the "present day", a young woman from New York named Liza Merril (Catriona Maccoll) has inherited the hotel and is renovating it. The activities of the contractors open the [[HellGate Gate of Hell]] the hotel is built over. Mysterious deaths and incidents ensue, with Liza and a local doctor encountering a mysterious blind girl who wants them to leave the hotel, a mystic tome called the Book of Eibon that supposedly contains the answers to the nightmare at hand, [[GiantSpider [[SpidersAreScary face eating tarantulas]], Schweick's ghoul, and eventually the rising dead. It ends with the two passing into the afterlife, which is [[TheNothingAfterDeath depicted as a blank gray wasteland littered with corpses]].

* BlindIdiotTranslation: The sign saying "DO NOT ENTRY."* BMovie* TheBigEasy* BoomHeadshot: Dr. [=McCabe=] manages to get a couple of headshots at some zombies. And then he had to shoot a ghoul that grabbed Liza's face. Dear '''GOD'', the results. [[http://www.bloodygoodhorror.com/bgh/files/promos/fulci%20lives%201.jpg Click through with extreme caution...]]* BottomlessMagazines: Subverted; knowing that people would question his character shooting what appeared to be unlimited ammo from his gun, Creator/DavidWarbeck stealthily did some improv durning in one scene (in the elevator of the hospital) where he reloads his gun.** [[ArtisticLicense ...By dropping ammunition straight down the barrel.]] A lateral move, so far as realism goes.* {{Corpsing}}: Maccoll grins at Warbeck's above mentioned gun joke.

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* BlindIdiotTranslation: The There's a sign saying "DO NOT ENTRY."* %%* BMovie* %%* TheBigEasy* BoomHeadshot: Dr. [=McCabe=] manages to get a couple of headshots at some zombies. And then he had has to shoot a ghoul that grabbed Liza's face. Dear '''GOD'', the results. [[http://www.bloodygoodhorror.com/bgh/files/promos/fulci%20lives%201.jpg Click through with extreme caution...]]* BottomlessMagazines: Subverted; knowing that people would question his character shooting what appeared to be unlimited ammo from his gun, Creator/DavidWarbeck stealthily did some improv durning during in one scene (in the elevator of the hospital) where he reloads his gun.** [[ArtisticLicense ...By gun... [[ArtisticLicense by dropping ammunition straight down the barrel.]] A barrel]] (a lateral move, so far as realism goes.goes).* {{Corpsing}}: Maccoll [=MacColl=] grins at Warbeck's above mentioned gun joke.

* BoomHeadshot: Dr. [=McCabe=] manages to get a couple of headshots at some zombies. And then he had to shoot a ghoul that grabbed Liza's face. Dear ''GOD''.'''GOD'', the results. [[http://www.bloodygoodhorror.com/bgh/files/promos/fulci%20lives%201.jpg Click through with extreme caution...]]

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